Can everybody welcome to build an special edition of Skull Duggery?

I am Dan Clyde, the editor-in-chief of Yahoo News and the co-host of Skull Duggery.

And we're here with the co-authors of an explosive new book on the Russia scandal.

Russian Roulette, the inside story of Putin's war on America and the election of Donald Trump.

They are Yahoo News chief investigative correspondent Michael Isikov.

Hello there.

Also my co-host on Skull Duggery.

And they've coined the Washington Bureau Chief from Mother Jones Magazine.

So I don't want to go over your long illustrious resumes.

I will say that these are two of the best investigative reporters in Washington.

They are what the military calls force multipliers.

Individually they're amazing, but put them together and watch out.

The book is full of scoops and revelations.

And everybody is talking about it in Washington and beyond.

There's so much in it, it's hard to know where to start.

Let's start at the beginning.

So all along the big question has been, why has Trump been so solicitous of the Russians?

And of Putin.

And your very first chapter, I think really gets it that in a pretty powerful way,

which is November 2013 trip to Moscow.

Kind of the roots of the scandal in some way.

So just tell us about that.

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